Presentation by Brewster Kahle at the DWeb Berlin Meetup (c-base, February 28, 2026). In this talk about the past and future of the web, Kahle covers:

• The Internet Archive: The original goal of building a "library of everything" and the historical reality that libraries are destroyed by the powerful.

• Chaos Communication Camp: How visiting the CCC heavily influenced the creation of the DWeb Camp in the United States.

• The "Broken" Web: Why the current web architecture is unreliable (average webpage lifespan of 100 days), surveilled, and controlled by too few corporate players.

• Beyond the Wayback Machine: Why archiving web pages is only a stopgap ("a kludge") and why we need forkable, GitHub-style architecture for websites.

• Building a New Tech Stack: A call to action leveraging new tools, like AI generation, to create a localized, non-VC-reliant internet that functions as a "game with many winners."